Latest Contributions by Gisbert61

We have 600+ point features with location accuracy of about 6 meter, collected years ago using an older gps device. The points are really hard to find as they are scattered throughout the forest and consist of pipes flush with the ground, in practice a metal detector is a must to  find them. Recently we purchased an Arrow 100 which offers sub-meter location data and I want to update all old points so our staff can find them much faster. When I select, edit and submit a point in Collector the actual location is not updated. The only way as far as I found is edit, then move the crosshair by hand and then 'update  point' and 'submit' This is a manual process, slow and it introduces it's own errors. Is there any way to edit the point feature and update the location to the data available from the gnss antenna automatically? I also noticed the 'extra fields' (Prepare for high-accuracy data collection—Collector for ArcGIS | Documentation ) like horizontal accuracy don't get filled in when I edit a point, they only occur when creating a new point but all I want to do is update the location of the existing points. Is that possible? Thanks in advance for reading, regards. Bert ... View more

Once upon a time in the past our company started to use gis/arcmap. For years the only gisworker and several temporary workers saved shapefiles, projects and whatnot onto a shared disk in the network, loosely organised by topic, subject, project, whatever seemed fit at that time. Some files are duplicate or nearly duplicate (which is worse), dispersed shapefiles belong to the same project, features in a fgdb do not always belong to the same project and to make matter worse the collegue will retire in a year or so. At the moment I can still pick his head so I feel an urge to restructure our gisdata. I seek a method to structure all our gisdata in a way so it's clear what we have, how current or outdated it is and where it is stored. What strategy do you use to store your data, how do you keep track of modifications, what kind of naming conventions do you use? Is there a whitepaper on how to do these things? Guidelines? Your views are greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for your time. Regards, Bert  ... View more